Manoj Kumar Jhariya

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Assistant) at Sant Gahira Guru Vishwavidyalaya Sarguja (Sarguja University), Ambikapur, India

Description This book offers comprehensive insights into the management of agroforestry for livelihood security and sustainable development in the tropics, addressing ecological interactions, productivity, and the monetization of carbon credits, while also outlining a future roadmap and policy challenges. Agroforestry is a brilliant land use farmin...

Knowledge transfer from generation to generation is a fundamental aspect of human society for their culture, growth, and survival. Agriculture production technologies (soil fertility evaluation) are also transferred to the farmer's community through this transfer process. The main aim of this study was to see the farmer's perception of poor and hig...

Food demand for the ever-increasing population creates a huge pressure on the land. At the same time, the availability of cultivation land decreases due to urbanization. It emphasizes the vertical intensification of crop production with more production per unit of land per unit of time by using intensive agricultural practices like high-yielding va...

Focuses on regenerative agriculture for long-term sustainability and managing climate change. Highlights soil-plant-atmosphere-agroecological nexus for sustainable food systems. Discusses research plans and policies on technological advancement for regenerative agriculture.

The escalation of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations due to urbanization, industrialization, and motorization combined with rapid population development has been one of the main issues that cropped up during the past few decades. Trees possess significant potential to sequester carbon from the atmosphere, offering a valuable means to c...

Purpose: The substantial use of peat as a nursery substrate leads to the destruction of ecologically important peat bogs, necessitating the search for sustainable and suitable alternatives. In this study, we assessed the suitability of sheep manure-based compost as a potential substrate to either partially or complete replace commercial peat in the...

Globally, the increasing fire events in addition to climate change due to the emission of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) as well as other greenhouse gases exerts huge pressure on natural resources and their management. This phenomenon is more severe in the tropical region due to increasing population, urbanization, industrialization, existing pressures, an...

Quantifying yield and morphological characterization help to understand the varietal performance of turmeric (Curcuma longa L.). The present investigation addresses the research gap of varietal performance and productivity of turmeric for 2 years in Chhattisgarh. It is the pioneer attempt to evaluate the varietal performance of turmeric through v...

Quantifying soil attributes in agroforestry reflects its productivity and carbon dynamics which indicates a healthier ecosystem functioning toward achieving sustainable production of coffee in the Southern region of Chhattisgarh. The present study was carried out in the coffee-based agroforestry system (AFs) of the Darbha Block, Bastar region in Ch...

Plant invasion is the biggest challenge for ecologist that affects biodiversity and environmental health. Forecasting of invasive plant species, its identification, early detection and distribution mapping are necessary for making plan of actions against negative consequences of alien invasive species. An invasive plant affects biodiversity along w...

Today, changing climate is gaining great attention among the scientific community over the past few decades. Deforestation, unsustainable land use practices, intensive farming practices, higher inputs of synthetic fertilizers, overuses of inorganic fertilizers, industrialization and other anthropogenic and natural process are widely considered to b...

Climber species tend to provide various important ecosystem services within the habitat condition. Very little study was conducted on climber diversity, biomass, carbon (C) stock, and CO2 mitigation under urban setup. To address this research gap, the present study was conducted to evaluate the phytosociological attributes, diversity, climbing mode...

Agroforestry for Carbon and Ecosystem Management is a comprehensive overview of current research, issues, challenges, and case studies in the area of agroforestry. The book focuses specifically on carbon source-sink relationship and management through agroforestry practices with a goal of improving overall environmental sustainability. Through expe...

Soil organic carbon (SOC) is an essential part of the soil that influences its physical, chemical, and biological characteristics. It significantly aids in its healthy operation, essential to human societies. Advantages of SOC include enhancement of soil quality through higher retention of water and nutrients, resulting in greater production of pla...

The present work was conducted in the forest-based ecosystem of Chhattisgarh in order to assess the varietal performance of coffee varieties along with silver oak in terms of growth, biomass, and carbon dynamics. Five coffee varieties were planted in silver oak shade in a randomized block design with four replications. The aim of the present invest...

The present study deals with the understory structure, diversity, and soil macro and micronutrients in vari�ous forest stands of the Duldula forest in northern Chhattisgarh. Forest stands include four natural (dense, moderately dense, regenerated, and degraded forests) and one plantation (teak). Stratified random sampling methods were used to evalu...

Eco-farming refers to ecological-based farming practices that are in large part in tune with nature. Unsustainable land use systems including agricultural intensification practices that utilize excessive agrochemical inputs have detrimental impacts on the environment, biodiversity, and our way of life. It affects almost every social, economic, and...

Pollinators sustain global populations by enhancing plant diversity and related food production. Nowadays, practicing intensive agriculture involves excessive agrochemical inputs. Agrochemicals are the biggest environmental risks with the potential of poisoning plants and soils on which pollinators depend for foraging, shelter, and pollination. Som...

The urban area is the most diverse land-use due to various types of interferences. Urban vegetation is, therefore, a scarce resource and investigation on the potentiality and ecological services are yet to be explored properly across the world. This study investigates the floristic diversity, biomass, carbon (C) stock, and CO2 mitigation in the urb...

LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT THROUGH FORESTRY Written and edited by a group of experts in the field, this groundbreaking reference work sets the standard for engineers, students, and professionals working in forestry, agriculture, ecology, and environmental science, offering the scientific community a way toward combating climate change and la...

Peat-based substrates are the preferred growing media in conventional and organic nursery production. However, there is growing interest in environmental impacts associated with peat extraction. The current study aims to see whether peat can be totally replaced with Acacia cyanophylla-based compost when used as soil media for nursery production. Ac...

Peat-based substrates are the preferred growing media in conventional and organic nursery production. However, there is growing interest in environmental impacts associated with peat extraction. The current study aims to see whether peat can be totally replaced with Acacia cyanophylla-based compost when used as soil media for nursery production. Ac...

The current study was focused on hydrogeochemistry of Ambagarh chowki groundwater. The main aim of the study was to evaluate the water quality for drinking and irrigation uses, hydrogeochemistry of groundwater. For this purpose, various physicochemical parameters like pH, electrical conductivity (EC), total hardness (TH), chloride (Cl⁻), fluoride (...

Environmental management and its sustainability are a key concern today. Anthropogenic CO2 emission and its related negative consequences on environment were observed due to industrial development, mining, deforestation, and intensive agricultural practices. This unstoppable rising CO2 concentration impairs key environmental services and its sustai...

Soil degradation is a major issue through various countries across the globe. During the present century, it was observed that land degradation has become a predominant phenomenon among different environmental perturbation. As per one estimate, 3 billion people (1/3) across the globe are suffering crisis situation in terms of land degradation. Anth...

Deforestation has become a major hurdle nowadays that affects overall ecosystem health and functioning. Illegal timber cutting, logging, mining, and many developmental projects deprive the land quality, soil health, and many other ecosystem services. Forest-mediated ecosystem services maintain environmental health and sustainability. A well-managed...

The practices of forest removal, illicit felling of timbers, and deforestation are increasing at alarming rates. Anthropogenic activities such as extensive logging, hunting, mining for industrial development, and practicing intensive agriculture and its expansion will lead to deforestation and affect forest health and productivity. However, defores...

Urban forest plays a vital role in conserving diversity and maintaining the forest cover outside the forest. In modern times, development challenges urban planning, economy, ecosystem, environment, and human health. Conservation of biodiversity and forest resources in an urban area is a major challenge and has become the global need to overcome the...

Quorum sensing (QS) is a molecular communication process of bacterial communities that helps to maintain their microbial integrity in various spheres of the environment. It is very important that bacteria communicate with each other. It helps one bacterial community to monitor the response of other communities in the same environment. Different lev...

Problematic soils due to high salinity and heavy metal contamination affect soil‐related ecosystem services. Bioremediation of these soils ensure plant–soil health for sustainable development at a global scale. Plant and microbe‐based soil remediation are recent and emerging technologies for achieving sustainable environment and ecological stabilit...

Food and nutritional security, environmental sustainability, mitigating climatic vulnerability, shifting of weed flora, weed developed resistance against the herbicide, high capital investment through manual weed management, and increasing the requirement for energy input in the agriculture sector are the major issues in crop production in the comi...

As bulks of animal food products are excessively expensive, to be purchased by the rural poor; especially in rainfed areas, hence; protein-energy malnutrition and chronic energy deficiency affect a large portion of the Indian population. However, to overcome this ongoing problem as the population grows, legumes play a massive part in boosting the n...

In developing countries, or in those countries that do not produce peat, forest soil has traditionally been used as a substrate for cultivation of seedlings in forest nurseries. However, forest soil as a substrate has not been found to produce seedlings of high quality. Additionally, the harvesting of forest soil within forested stands has negative...

In developing countries, or in those countries that do not produce peat, forest soil has traditionally been used as a substrate for cultivation of seedlings in forest nurseries. However, forest soil as a substrate has not been found to produce seedlings of high quality. Additionally, the harvesting of forest soil within forested stands has negative...

Significant research has been conducted on the effects of soil salinity issue on agricultural productivity. However, limited consideration has been given to its critical effects on soil biogeochemistry (e.g., soil microorganisms, soil organic carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions), land desertification, and biodiversity loss. This article is ba...

Coriaria nepalensis is one among the shrubs which mitigate the frequency of perilous natural events or natural calamities by its ability. This paper elucidates the nutrient dynamics of C. nepalensis shrublands in degraded hills of Kumaun Himalaya. The average nutrient concentration (N, P and K) in aboveground components of C. nepalensis was in the...

Environmental variables are key factors that affect the babul gum production by altering anatomical and physiological gummosis processes. Temperature and humidity play a significant role in gum production; even varying climatic parameters have significant impact on overall gum production in babul (Acacia nilotica) tree. Thus, we have tried to explo...

The interrelationship among soil attributes and microbial biomass carbon (MBC), nitrogen (MBN), and phosphorus (MBP) of Indian Central Himalayan forest soils were analysed. The forest ecosystem studied that comprised of chir pine (CPF), banj oak (BOF), and mixed oak-pine forest (MOPF). The MBC, MBN, and MBP values varied from 429-739, 67-121, and 1...

The tropical deforestation due to biotic interference, land use change, and population explosion in Asian countries has attracted the global concern with respect to conservation and protection of forest resources. Indian soils are limited in terms of nutrient reserves and organic matters. Our present study deals the influence of disturbance on phyt...

The urban setup has major component of social, environmental, and climate change perspectives especially in Asia. The urban ecosystem is intricate because of its structure, function, and process due to various kinds of land-use, micro-climate, edaphic variability, diversity, and level of biotic and abiotic pressures. Urban vegetation serves various...

Forests help in building soils through varying amounts of litter and root inputs. The forest decay adds essential nutrients to the soils which leads to nutritious food and fruits, thereby maintaining food and nutritional security. The forests deliver other ecosystem services as well such as provision of timber and non-timber forest products (NTFPs)...

Plans outlined in the conference of parties (COP) 26 included the restoration of degraded lands as one of the targets for achieving long-term food sustainability under climate change. The experiment aimed to assess carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration and improvement in soil physicochemical properties of agriculture ecosystem models. The results of t...

Agroforestry systems (AFs) deliver precious services and sustain biodiversity through ecological, social, and economic stability. Quantifying the economics of agroforestry and non-agroforestry systems is linked with farmer’s livelihood or forest-dwelling communities. In this context, the present study was conducted to explore various economic param...

Degradation of riparian vegetation throughout the world is a major challenge due to its various ecological functions. Assessment of degeneration of riparian vegetation structure, diversity and their subsequent restoration through screening of indigenous species are rare information from Indian perspective. The present study was designed to assess t...

In Kumaun Himalaya, the shrublands dominated by Coriaria nepalensis are present in patches and due to their facilitative nature enhance the restoration of degraded hills. The present study deals with the dry matter dynamics of C. nepalensis shrublands. The equation for C. nepalensis was developed to measure the biomass and to understand the dry mat...

Enhancing nutrient use efficiencies (NUEs) is an important factor in achieving the long�term sustainability of a production system. Our two-year experiment was aimed at accessing the NUEs of the integration of macro- and micronutrient fertilization responses of three lentil (Lens culinaris) cultivars. Three cultivars were planted in the main plots,...

Carbon (C) is a key product of forests, but not widely studied for available C stock, and biomass of tree species in typical forest ecosystems of India. Therefore, it is useful to estimate C stock at national and regional levels for establishing forest-based policies and developing roadmap for long-term plans and strategies to reduce the rate of in...

Growing demand for nutritious, safe, and healthy food, as well as the commitment to preserve biodiversity and other resources, represents a tremendous challenge to agriculture, which is already under threat from climate change. A diverse and healthy plant-based diets may greatly reduce these diet-related diseases and other health-related issues. As...

Increase agricultural productivity and mitigate the demand of food security of the rapidly flourishing population the primary nutrient element nitrogen (N) has been playing a paramount role in the crop production system. The denitrification losses N in the form of nitrous oxide (N2O) are very much harmful to the environment because it causes global...

The climatic perturbations would show drastic effect across the world and hence are anticipated to boom in the near future. The effects of climate change can’t be denied and has been seen on human health, animals’ life and agriculture systems. The long-term change in weather pattern of a large geographical region is known as climate change, and it...

The current research explored the storage, mitigation, and sequestration of carbon in two age groups of Haldina cordifolia and Mitragyna parvifolia grown on entisols of tropical dry deciduous environment of Chhattisgarh, India. The random sampling technique was used for measuring the various ecological attributes of the stands. The average girth in...

Climate change is a major issue across the globe. Therefore, carbon (C) assimilation and storage is the key management strategy for mitigating climate change. The present investigation was carried out in two riparian sites i.e., Maini and Machhli river of northern Chhattisgarh, India, through stratified random sampling. Results reveal that vegetati...

The mega event of climatic perturbations has its severe impact on human health and also on the well-being of the global ecosystem. The major issue of changing climate has affected various ecosystems globally in terms of acidification of oceans followed by elevated level of carbon dioxide. It has its severe impacts in various forms of habitat degene...

Agroecology refers to the process based on ecological principles to be applied in the agroecosystem for effective soil management and gain sustainable yield. The scientific application leads to a diversified agroecosystem which addresses the issue of environmental sustainability. It also focuses on various ecosystem services in the form of maintain...

This edited book provides a comprehensive account of the sustainable intensification process through various forms of case studies and scientific approaches studied across the globe. It also focuses on the agroecosystem services and their subsequent management for ecological integrity. The book helps to understand the interconnection of food, nutri...

Researches in agriculture are the essence of well-being for human civilization. It is a technology that boosts up the growth and development of the society considering the environmental aspect. Nowadays, the agriculture sector is suffering from multidimensional problem in terms of agro-pollution, resource depletion, climatic vulnerability, and redu...

India has achieved a record food grain production of~300 million tonnes in 2019-2020. Simultaneous production of a large volume of crop residues (CRs) is natural. It is documented that~700 million tonnes (Mt) of CRs are generated every year in India. But the proper disposal of CRs is of serious concern, especially in the irrigated and mechanized cr...

Agroforestry systems (AFs) ensure greater biodiversity that intensifies ecosystem services in tangible and intangible ways. Accounting ecosystem services through well-managed agroforestry systems are other important aspects of scientific studies nowadays. AFs are an integration of trees with crops, and it also includes animal farming with the inten...

Soil health and quality are key aspects upon which various ecosystem processes depend. Ongoing series of land degradations, deforestation, intensive agricultural practices, etc. affects the soil health. These deleterious unsustainable practices deprive soil fertility and affect overall ecosystem services (ES). Depleting nature of soil affects tree-...

Agroecosystem itself represents a managed ecosystem in agricultural land by human-managed crops and livestock's integration that are highly productive, profitable, and ecologically sustainable. Growing populations and related food demands necessitate intensive practices in agriculture systems. Deforestation and other anthropogenic factors promote f...

Agroecosystem means improving the agricultural ecosystem by human-induced management of trees, crops, and livestock in any land use system. Resource conservations, soil health management, minimizing environmental footprints, and climate change mitigation are key services through a healthy agroecosystem. Food demands due to burgeoning populations ne...

Resources sustain the ecosystem, but its depletions are the major concern of the present times. Natural resources such as agriculture, forestry, agroforestry, soils, animals, etc. enhance the biodiversity which intensify ecosystem services in tangible and intangible ways and regulate ecosystem processes. These ecosystem services not only maintain s...

Ecosystem is under the threat of rapid degeneration across the globe. Earth is bestowed with diverse ecosystem services. Among them, some are very unique in nature and also much fragile, and leads to various types of degradation on the earth. Riparian ecosystem is one of the unique examples that sustain diverse life form and various modes of ecolog...

Bauxite mine reclamation stared over few years ago. The main objective of the reclamation was establishment of the timber land for the commercial purpose (ex. Plantation of the Eucalyptus species for paper and timber industries). Past reclamation techniques not suitable for reclaim main character of ecosystem such as LFSC (landscape, function, stru...

In the era of resource degradation, sustainability term is prerequisite for managing and conserving of these valuable natural resources that can beachievedthrough scientific-based research, good and effective policy, ecological-oriented wisdom and intellect of people, etc. Rapid industrialization, mining, faulty agricultural practices and rangeland...

Today, AFS are gaining much more importance due to its multifarious benefits and adoptive potential in various agro-climatic zones of the tropics. Agroforestry not only helps in development of farmers social, economic, and culture value but also builds the soil fertility, food, and nutrition security (by providing nutritive foods) and maintains eco...